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Pascalls Pontefract Cakes - Now, these lovelies are iconic, and have been around for AGES. Listen to this for a priceless bit of trivia:According to our in-house sweet anorak, the Pontefract Cake (aka Pomfret Cake, or Yorkshire Penny) with the imprint of Pontefract Castle has been around since 1614!Originally, they were only made in Pontefract (that`s near Leeds). . . bad weather didn`t matter too much because they used the liquorice root.And listen to this. . . liquorice is such a big deal in Pontefract, that there is now an annual Liquorice Festival celebrated!How cool is that?! Other bits of Pontefract Cake trivia:- - Up to the 1960s all Pontefract Cakes were made by hand- A Pontefract Cake maker was known as a Caker or Thumper- In 1955 a caker was paid 4 pence a tray, with each tray holding 280 cakes

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A Quarter Of is a nostalgic online sweet shop which replaces the corner sweet shop that everyone remembers growing up with. Our sweets bring back fond memories of childhood days when the sun shone for longer, when you went everywhere with a whoopee cushion in your back pocket, and when your 6p change from your weekly dose of penny chews went on a copy of Whizzer and Chips. We have around 600 old favourites - from Space Dust to Cherry Lips, Sweet Tobacco to Anglo Bubbly Bubblegum, Candy Necklaces to Blackjacks... And we're adding more all the time - if a sweet is still around, we'll find it and stock it!

[ Pascalls Pontefract Cakes : £1.83 ]